Elitegroup P71EN installation - Manual (Page 4)

VT6420 User Manual – SATA Controller
Revision 1.01, May 19, 2003 i Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Revision History.................................................................................................................................................i
Table of Contents...............................................................................................................................................i
Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................... 1
RAID Basics................................................................................................................................................... 1
RAID 0 (Striping) ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1
RAID 1 (Mirroring) ..................................................................................................................................................................... 1
JBOD (Spanning)......................................................................................................................................................................... 2
Key Features .................................................................................................................................................. 2
Installing The Hard Drives ............................................................................................................................... 3
BIOS Configuration Utility ............................................................................................................................... 4
Enter BIOS Configuration Utility ............................................................................................................... 4
Create Disk Array ......................................................................................................................................... 5
Delete Disk Array.......................................................................................................................................... 8
Create and Delete Spare Hard Drive .......................................................................................................... 9
Select Boot Array ........................................................................................................................................ 10
View Serial Number of Hard Drive........................................................................................................... 11
View Array Status ....................................................................................................................................... 11
Duplicate Critical RAID 1 Array............................................................................................................... 12
Rebuild Broken RAID 1 Array.................................................................................................................. 13
Driver and RAID Software Installation.......................................................................................................... 15
Microsoft Windows Driver Installation .................................................................................................... 15
Verify Installation ....................................................................................................................................... 17
RAID Software................................................................................................................................................. 18
Installation ................................................................................................................................................... 18
Getting Start ................................................................................................................................................ 19
View Controller and Device Status............................................................................................................ 22
Create Disk Array ....................................................................................................................................... 23
Delete Disk Array........................................................................................................................................ 26
Add and Remove Spare Disk Drive........................................................................................................... 28
Add Spare Disk Drive ................................................................................................................................................................ 28
Remove Spare Disk Drive.......................................................................................................................................................... 30
Check All Disks ........................................................................................................................................... 31
View Event Log ........................................................................................................................................... 32
Verify Mirror Disk...................................................................................................................................... 34
Synchronize Mirror Disk............................................................................................................................ 36
Disk Error Detection................................................................................................................................... 38
Duplicate Critical RAID 1 Array............................................................................................................... 39
Rebuild Broken RAID 1 Array.................................................................................................................. 40
Icon View...................................................................................................................................................... 43